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[ILUG] History of /etc ?

[ILUG] History of /etc ?

Barry Flanagan barryf-lists at flanagan.ie
Mon May 31 14:56:22 IST 2004


On Mon, 2004-05-31 at 14:45, John P. Looney wrote:

>  Like, what's this /usr folder for, eh ? When was the last time you needed
> to have it mounted over NFS, because your disk was too small for a proper
> / ?

Well, I can certainly tell you the last time I needed to have /usr
mounted read-only to make the system more secure in a multi-user
environment....

-- 
-Barry Flanagan




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